Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was
BANKSYGaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
More Banksy Quotes
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
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It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.
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People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.
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Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
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It’s impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won’t. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I’d picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn’t like the attention.
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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
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The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires
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Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that
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People either love me or they hate me, or they don’t really care.
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Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.
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I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.
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I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
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